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APC Scientific Board 2017 Tech 2012-2016 APC Laboratory Technical Activities T. Zerguerras on behalf of the Technical Departments 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 1 Technical Departments Organisation Equipment, facilities and platform Instrumentation Department (Techniques Expérimentales) Electronics and Microelectronics Department Mechanics Department IT Department Quality Unit R&D: CMB µelectronic, Compton, GAMMACUBE, Liquido Analysis & Prospects 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 2 General organisation • 5 technical departments + Quality Unit + the FACe platform • Building an instrument => combining skills 22/09/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 3 Technical departments organisation Matrix organisation structure: Project/Department (Assignment to a department, participation to projects) One specific skill (Mechanics, Electronics/µelectronics, Instrumentation, IT, QA/PA) Transverse activities of the Quality Unit Supervision : Head of department Project coordination: Project manager Indicator Boards for activities and assignments monitoring Project Monitoring Committee (Comité de Suivi de Projets CSP) This organisation aims to create a bond of trust with funding and tutelage agencies 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 4 Organisation: Technical staff evolution On 31/12 Technical departments staff evolution 60 Technical departments staff - Gender 45 50 40 40 35 34 30 30 33 35 38 38 Permanent 25 MEN Fixed-term 20 38 40 39 40 39 20 WOMEN 15 10 10 15 17 13 12 12 5 10 11 9 10 11 0 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Technical departments staff - Skill level 60 50 Age distribution - 31/12/2016 IR 40 15 28 23 27 27 27 IE 30 AI 10 20 Permanent 14 12 9 13 T 15 5 Fixed-term 10 7 AJT 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 0 1 1 1 1 13 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20 _29 30 _39 40 _49 50_59 60+ 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 5 Equipment and facilities ISO8 Cleanroom Frequency comb (128m2): generator - Integration room (Laser emission in a - LISA room spectral band from 1 to - VIRGO room 2µm with a frequency step of 250MHz) Millimetric Laboratory: 100mK dilution-free cryostat (Oxford Instrument) (Cooling power : 160µW @100mK, No cryogenic fluid) Millimetric Laboratory: Vector network analyzer (characterization of antenna and filters in the frequency range 70-220GHz) 17/10/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 6 Equipment and facilities Mechanics Workshop 3D Printing Stratasys Low electronic noise test room (37,5 m2) Fortus FDM250mc including a Faraday cage to test components (ABS stable and circuits from 0.1mHz to 10Hz thermoplastic ) Photodetection Laboratory Mouting hall 17/10/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 7 Platform: FACe Started in 2010, support of IPGP in the framework of the Paris-Diderot University Space Campus – Application to the CNRS/IN2P3 Platform Label • Scientific Manager: Cécile Cavet (IT Department) • Technical Manager : Michèle Detournay (IT Department) Missions: Building and infrastructures management (machines, electrical facilities, CDF, CVC, maintenance, subcontracting management) Computing infrastructures management Services to projects (data bases, web applications, development platform, training and user support) Equipement: Computing parallel cluster: 652 cores et 42Tb storage 80 virtual servers for astroparticle and space projects (storage: 180Tb) Concurrent Design Facility (CDF): design and operations (LISAPathfinder, LISA …) Projects: PLANCK, INTEGRAL, CODEEN (EUCLID) … Cécile Cavet Next: FACe presentation FACe relocation in 2018 Contribution : LISA DPC, SVOM pipeline 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 8 Instrumentation Department : Organisation 7 permanent, 4 fixed-term Total : 11 Fixed term/Total: 36% AdvVIRGO (PM), LISA, TARANIS LISA TARANIS LPF, LISA LISA QUBIC, TARANIS (PM), KM3NeT (PM) IN2P3 Valorization EUSO, Radioprotection QUBIC (PM), Cleanroom IGOSAT (PM) 2012-2016: 10 departures, 11 arrivals 2017: 2 permanent positions opened May 2017: end of fixed-term IE hiring (Instrumentation IE, System IR) contract (QUBIC, EUCLID) 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 9 Instrumentation Department: Skills Optics and interferometry System engineering AIT/AIV Vacuum and cryogeny Bolometer Photodetection and spectroscopy Simulations (Zemax, Fred, Matlab …) Test benches design for detector characterization Data acquisition (ex: Labview) Data analysis (ex: Matlab) Spatial and QA background (environment qualifications …) Cleanroom Project management 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 10 Instrumentation Department: AdVIRGO and post-AdVIRGO R&D Telescopes for Advanced Virgo (2011-2015): Adapting beam size from a few mm (laser bench) to 5 cm in cavities (and vice-versa) Workpackages: o Optical simulations and design o Validation tests in the APC cleanroom o Definition of alignment procedures o Installation of 5 telescopes on site. GW detection in coincidence with LIGO (August 2017) Laguerre-Gauss modes MAJOR EVENTS: Production of higher-order LG modes : PRL 2010 Interferometry : first lock (2014) Thermal compensation of aberrations : PRD 2015 Prospects: Einstein Telescope: Third generation GW detector (underground, cryogenic, …) : LG modes integration Contribution: Mechanics Dpt 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 11 Instrumentation Department: LISAPathfinder Successfully launched on 03/12/2015 (end : July 2017) Validation of the technology for LISA: measurement of the distance between two free-falling test masses by laser heterodyne interferometry Major contribution of the APC to data analysis and interpretation (µ-thrusters, deglitch …) Interferometer noise performances one order of magnitude better than LPF requirements LISA selected as ESA L3 mission (launch: 2034) 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 12 Instrumentation Department: LISA AIT/AIV Phase 0 CNES and ESA Straylight studies Simulations to estimate the scattered light LISA On Table (LOT) from LISA telescopes: Specifications on surface properties with micro-roughness models ; cleanliness Polarization of scattered lights Funding: ESA ITT (collab: Thalès Alenia, APC, ARTEMIS, LMA) Hardware simulator of LISA to test in a representative acquisition chain: Noise reduction techniques Instruments (photometers, phasemeter) 1st TDI tested Preparation for operations in vacuum (10-1mbar) Funding: R&T CNES 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 13 Instrumentation Department: KM3NeT Project started @ APC in 2014 APC in charge of (CB+IU) project management Design, integration, characterization and qualification of a new generation Laser Beacon for time calibration Design, integration and deployment of a calibration unit for the KM3NeT detector Collaboration with the CPPM (Marseille, France) in charge of the instrumentation line Funding FEDER + CNRS/IN2P3: 400 k€ (CB + IU) Starting operation : mid-2019 Calibration test bench for DOM @ APC Memphyno tank Contributions: . Mechanics . Electronics . QA/PA 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 14 Instrumentation Department: TARANIS CNES Microsatellite to study TLEs occuring during large storms Design, production and validation of the XGRE sensor (3 x 4 DU: LaBr3, plastic scintillators, PMT). Instrumentation AIT/AIV (EGSE and MGSE development, design and fabrication of QM and FM, environment tests implementation). Production and validation of the XGRE QM sensors (vibration and thermal vacuum tests) completed (August 2015) Production and validation of the XGRE FM sensors SM2 qualifications @ CNES (February 2016) AIT FM sensors & vibration qualif. tests (March 2016) Schock qualif. tests (April 2016) Anomaly detected on LaBr3 (loss of performances) -> Production process upgrade by St Gobain -> June 17: delivery of new LaBr3 (12 FM DUs + 4 QM DUs) Contributions: -> July 2018: delivery of FM Dus • Mechanics -> End 2018- mid 2019: AIT on satellite and calibration • QA/PA • Electronics • NEXEYA (QA/PA and AIT/AIV) 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 15 Instrumentation Department: EUSO Towards UHECR detection from space using UV light . Major facts / key milestones achieved 2012-2014: successful flight of the EUSO-Balloon mission (12 countries, funding CNES+ Collaboration = 1,7 M€) Project management + integration & calibration focal surf @ APC Congratulations from CNES for the scientific return + funding for a second flight Test campaigns in collaboration with the Telescope Array collaboration (USA+Japan) and in Turlab (Torino) First UHECR detection using JEM-EUSO prototype Funding from Europe (EuHIT), Campus Spatial (Paris Diderot) and CNES for second flight (Total for APC and LAL: 225 k€) April 2017: EUSO-SPB (long duration balloon flight) by NASA : Design, integration and calibration of the detector @ APC . Upcoming milestones Dec. 2018: launch of the mini-EUSO mission towards ISS Contributions: Design, integration and calibration of PDM and HV system @ APC . Mechanics April 2020 : Second SPB flight, POEMMA prototype, selected . Electronics as NASA Probe studies program in 2017 . QA/PA 20/11/2017 APC Scientific Board 2017 16 Electronics and Microelectronics Department : Organisation Electronics: 7 permanent 2 fixed term Total: 9 Fixed term/Total: 22 % Microelectronics CTA, KM3NeT ATHENA, TARANIS (creation in 2016) CTA (PM), KM3NeT ATHENA Multi projects TARANIS, JUNO, WA105 CTA, R&T Compton ATHENA (PM), 2 permanent GAMMACUBE 1 fixed term QUBIC ATHENA, Total: 3 LISA, LPF JUNO (PM), LISA, EUSO, HSD QUBIC Fixed term/Total: 33% WA105 (PM) Electronics Dpt: • 2 retirements in the next 5 years Microelectronics Dpt: • End of the 2 fixed-term hiring • End of the fixed-term IE hiring contract in 2018
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